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' I Ii Fsg l Inventor:

UNITED 'srarns PATENT onirica.

H. A. ROBERTS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

ICE-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 21,275, dated August 24, 1858.

T0 all 'Lv/wm may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY A. Ronnnrs, of the city of Hartford, county ofHartford7 and State of Connecticut, have in vented new and usefulImprovements in the Mode of Constructing Ice-Receptacles or Stands forPlacing Ice On for Refrigerating Purposes; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a. correct description thereof,

reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in t-he mode of construction and inthe application of a receptacle or stand on which blocks of ice areplaced for refrigerating purposes, to be used in any locality, orV in,or independent of a refrigerator.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

The drawing-Figure l a plan of the bottom of the stand; Fig. 2 end viewof saine; Fig. 3 side view of ditto.

The convoluted angular shape supports A, are formed of one piece ofmetal, and the whole stand or support for the ice is formed by a seriesof said angular shape supports placed in a frame F, so that the dripfrom one is caught by the other, and is discharged into the crosschannel C, in the middle of the stand.

The shape o'f the channels is described in Figs. 1, 2, 3. Theyalternately at the lower parts envelop each other, having a small spacebetween each edge to allow the circulation of t-he air between and aboutthe ice. The upper edge by thus projecting a small distance inwardlyover the lower edge per mits the condensed and melted Water from the icetotrickle and drop down or fall into the lower channels B, and then runsinto the cross channel C in the middle of the stand to be conveyed intothe flexible discharging tube D and is instantly carried and conveyed bythis flexible elastic tube to any place or distance that may berequired.

The elasticity of the tube allows it to be carried in and out and allmanner of ways and among all sorts of articles, it being perfectly dryon the outside, and can be terminated at the discharging end into avessel, out of a window, or in any other convenient manner or device, sothat every thing around and about the stand Will remain in a dry anddesiccated state.

In rooms or situations where fever or other sickness prevails, (formedicinal purposes), this ice stand will be found valuable as it can beplaced in any convenient position so as to absorb the atmosphericmoisture of the room, condensing and carrying off the same with thewater of the melted ice through the flexible tube I), thus purifyingdesiccating and cooling the air, causing a current without a draft.

I claimi As a new article of manufacture, an ice stand with convolutedangular shape drip supports A, constructed and arranged in an adjustableframe F, with the cross channel O, flexible discharging tube D, rollersE, substantially in the manner and for the pur pose described.

HENRY A. ROBERTS..

IVit-nesses WM. VINE, GEO. S. GILMAN.

